Forensic Interviewers' Difficulty With Invitations: Faux Invitations and Negative Recasting.

ABSTRACT: An ongoing challenge for forensic interviewers is to maximize their use of invitations, such as requests that the child "tell me more about" details mentioned by the child. Examining 434 interviews with 4- to 12-year-old children questioned about abuse, this study analyzed (1) faux invitations, in which interviewers prefaced questions with "tell me" but then asked a noninvitation, (2) negative recasts, in which interviewers started to ask an invitation but then recast the question as a wh- or option-posing question, and (3) other aspects of questions that may relate to productivity independent of their status as invitations. About one fourth of "tell me" questions were faux invitations, and over 80% of recasts were negative. The frequency of both faux invitations and negative recasts incre

SUBMITTER: Henderson HM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7997731 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature